Tongue
Published on Dec 02, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
TONGUE TWISTER
- Your tongue is made up of lots of little muscles.
- The muscles run in different directions to carry out all of the tongues jobs.
- Your tongue helps you eat.
- The back of yor tongue mixes your food into saliva.
TONGUE HELD DOWN TIGHT
- You can't swallow your tongue because of your frenulum.
- Your frenulum is a membrane (a thin layer of tissue).
TASTY TIDBITS
- Your tongue is covered with a layer of bumps called papillae
- They help grip your food when you eat.
- They also contain your taste buds and those help you to taste you food.
- People are born with 10,000 taste buds.
TRAVELING TASTES
- Each taste bud is made from taste cells.
- They have microscopic hairs called microvilli.
- Microvillis send messages to the brain.
FRIEND OF THE TONGUE
- Food doesn't taste normal when you have a cold.
- Your nose helps your tongue taste food.
- Strong smells can confuse your taste buds
FIGHTING GERMS
- Your tongue even helps you from getting sick.
- The back section of your tongue contains something called the lingual tonsil.
- Tonsils are small pieces of tissue that filers out bad germs.
THE TONGUE IS ONE TOUGH WORKER
- Your tongue nevers has a break.
- Even when your sleeping your tongue is pushing saliva to your throut.
